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Large eddy simulation of flow around the Ahmed body

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The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses, and Trains

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics ((LNACM,volume 19))

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The automotive industry has a high demand for reliable simulation methods capable of tackling the complex turbulent air flow around vehicles. The Ahmed reference model is a generic car-type bluff body with a slant back. It is frequently used as a benchmark test case for this kind of flow. In spite of the relatively simple geometry of the Ahmed body, the flow around it retains some main features of the flow around real cars.

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  1. Institute for Hydromechanics, University of Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    C. Hinterberger, M. García-Villalba & W. Rodi

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  1. Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-098, 94551, Livermore, CA, USA

    Rose McCallen Ph.D.

  2. Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Univerity of Southern California, 90089-1453, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Fred Browand Ph.D.

  3. Research Center MS 260-1, Experimental Aerophysics Branch, NASA-Ames, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    James Ross Ph.D.

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Hinterberger, C., García-Villalba, M., Rodi, W. (2004). Large eddy simulation of flow around the Ahmed body. In: McCallen, R., Browand, F., Ross, J. (eds) The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses, and Trains. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44419-0_7

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